Monumentum
Head from Capua
Head in Phrygian cap with a sorrowful expression, used as a protome in the Amphitheatre of Capua and interpreted as a head of Mithras.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 893 ↔ CIMRM 179
A. de Franciscis in Boll. d'Arte 1950, 153f with fig. 1 publishes a head (H. 0.68) in Phrygian cap. It has a sorrow expression. It served as a protome in the Amphitheatre and is interpreted by the author as a head of Mithras.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
